1.Many of the fallen powers still have followers 10,000 years later, such as the Furbolg who follow in the path of the long-dead ursine demigods Ursoc and Ursol.
2.Cultured, idealistic, sympathetic, he seemed to Tess a demigod ,and though she had sworn herself to celibacy, the enforced propinquity ripened into intimacy and drifted into love.